Lamp



H. W. LESTER.

LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-20,1920.

Patented Dec. 27, 1921.

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LAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 2'7, 1921.

Application filed January 20, 1920. v Serial No. 352,647.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that HOWARD W. LESTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in "the county of Hartford and.

State of Connecticut, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relate to lamps. A lamp involving the invention is of course capable of eneral use although it is of especial utillty when employed in connection with an automobile. It can be employed for in stance in this event as a head-light. It may of course be used with equal utility in connection with a boat or a shipand in The primary purpose I have is the provision'of means of the character et forth by which rays from a lampor lamps may be intensely projected Without. the so-calledglare. The article may be in expensively and easily produced.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of the present specification I have shown in detail several of the many ways of carrying the invention into effect, which will be set forth fully in the following description to enable those skilled in the a t to practice the. same. Clearly I am not restrictedto thi disclosure. I may depart therefrom in several respects within the scope of the invention defined by the claim following said description.

Referring to said drawings; 7

Figure 1 is a cross section of one form of the lamp.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

'Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1 of a second form ofthe article. 1

Fig. 4 is a view' from the front with a part brokenaway and in section of the lamp of Fig. 3. j

Like characters refer to. like parts throu bout the several views. w

Re erring "first to Figs. 1 and 2, the device therein shown, involves in its makeup, what may bebroadl considered a body or casing such as that enoted in a general way by 2 and which can be formed from sheet metal or any other proper stock. This From the lower body or'casing 2 comprises what might be considered a back as 3 and an overhanging compound curved top as 4, the back'in fact being shown asarched, curved or bowed.

ortion of the back 3 extends forwardly t e bottom 5 from the front of which extends upwardly the flange or lip 6. The bottom 5 is not necessarily flat but may be as hown of somewhat compound curvature. This casing 2 may be covered at its sides by the closures, plates or disks 7 suitably fastened to the body. The casing 2 in turn may be supported by a post ,as 8 rigidly connected in some convenient glass, metal or of composite character. This reflector 10 obviously intensifies the rays projected by the lamps or lamp 9. The

. space or interval between the lower or forward edge of the arch top 4 and the edge of the inwardly curved portion of the flange 6 presents an opening 11 through which the rays from the lamps, or it might be one lamp, are projected, The rays are generally delivered downward by the construction hereinafter described.

metal or of suitable composition. It is arranged at an inclination to the vertical, the

- incline being downwardly and backwardly from theupper edge thereof. This reflector or mirror 12 is rigidly heldin place to the back 3 between. closing plates 7 and it receives upon it the rays projected from a lamp or lamps 9 and the reflector 10 these rays in turn being delivered downwardly through the opening or slot 11. The flange or lip 6 acts as a ositive barrier to prevent one 1n front of t e device from receiving directly the rays from the lamp or lamps 9,

these rays as I have noted being delivered upon the mirror or reflector 12 and in turn delivered downwardly so that one observing the structure from the front experiences no ill effect. Thetwo light bulbs 9 are fitted in sockets 13 which extend through openings in the bot-tom of the casing 3 and are connected to the hollow barl l through which the leads 15 connected to the respective.

lam s or bulbs 9'extend.

Vhen the lamps or bulbs 9 are on, the rays other forms of the device and parts in this Which'correspond to that shown in Figs. 1

t and 2 will bear similar characters with prime marks. In this construction there is but a single lamp 9 supported at its ends by brackets 16 in the channel 17 near the ends thereof. The leads of this lamp 9 extend through the tube 14: and are connected with the ends of the lamp.

In the modified construction there is but a single reflector the rays of light being intensified by a suitable ,lens or lens means because the lens means may be entirely different from that shown. There is but a single lens illustrated, it being denoted by 18 and being disposed longitudinally of the casing 3 and connected for instance bybolts 19 to the ends 7 of the casing. This lens 18 is at a slant as shown and is between the lamp 9' and the reflector 12' which is a duplicate of the reflector 12. The rays of light emanating from the lamp 9 pass through the lens 1 8 and then onto the reflector 12 and subsequently through the front opening 11, the flange 6 of course covering the lamp 9 and the lens 18 for that matter from the front of the casing 3.

What I claim is:

A lamp comprising a casing having a light opening, a reflector in the back of the casing, to project rays through said light opening, a reflector in the casing to receive rays from a lamp and which are projected thereby onto the other reflector, a hollow bar for conductors mounted below the casing, lamp sockets in the casing at the base of and back of the second reflector, the sockets being adapted to receive the said conductors for connection with the lamp, the forward lower side of the casing being curled upwardlv and rearwardly to cover the lamp from the front of the casing, the latter being curled upwardly and forwardl beyond the lower portion thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HOIVARD RV. LESTER.

Witnesses ELSIE M. RAnENs'rEIN, HEATH SUTHERLAND. 

